Huerth

This article describes the city of Hürth; for other meanings see Hürth (disambiguation)

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 52 '  N , 6 ° 52'  E
Basic data
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region :	Cologne
Circle :	Rhein-Erft district
Height :	90 m above sea level NHN
Area :	51.22 km 2
Residents:	59,731 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	1166 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	50354
Area code :	02233
License plate :	BM
Community key :	05 3 62 028
City structure:	12 districts
City administration address :	Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 40 50354 Huerth
Website :	www.huerth.de
Mayor :	Dirk Breuer ( CDU )
Location of the city of Hürth in the Rhein-Erft district

Hürth is a medium-sized district town in the Rhein-Erft district , administrative district of Cologne , North Rhine-Westphalia . The place owes its origin to the economic and industrial development of the region through the development of the lignite deposits in the Rhenish lignite mining area at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, which in 1930 made it necessary to merge its districts into a large municipality . The city owes its current importance as a location for the chemical industry , services and mass media to a successful restructuring and economic development after the end of coal mining in 1988.

geography

Hürth borders directly on Cologne to the southwest and is located on the northeast slope of the Ville , part of the Rhineland Nature Park . The urban area is divided into three landscape areas:

• the fertile plain of the Cologne Bay (predominantly used for agriculture and partially populated over a large area)
• the Villehang, the foothills (partly densely populated, partly still very agricultural, mainly characterized by growing vegetables, especially near Fischenich and Kendenich)
• the Ville (sparsely populated, mostly recultivated area covered with forest from the former lignite mining)

Restoration of the Hürther Thalmühle (1897) Upper course of the Duffesbach

The highest point in Hürth is the Wilhelmshöhe at 155 meters , an overburden dump in the Berrenrather Börde .

Boroughs and description

The twelve districts are grouped into nine boroughs.

• Alt-Hürth and Knapsack (7,265 and 151 inhabitants)
  The majority of Knapsack was relocated for environmental reasons in the 1970s. The eponymous and formerly central district of the city of Hürth was renamed Alt-Hürth in 1979.
• Berrenrath (3,278)
  Berrenrath was closed (except for one factory settlement) until 1959 and relocated to a recultivated brown coal mine.
• Gleuel (6,558)
  The old castle, mill and church town is strongly characterized by the expansion of miners' settlements.
• Alstädten-Burbach (3,795)
  The two places have grown together politically and spatially and are seen as a unit.
• Stotzheim and Sielsdorf (1,776 and 379)
  Stotzheim and Sielsdorf are, apart from the almost completely relocated Knapsack, the smallest towns in the city. Stotzheim is also called Stiefmütterchendorf .
• Efferen (12,769)
  The town borders on Cologne, separated by the Cologne green belt . In 1975 there were plans to incorporate the Cologne-oriented town there. Noteworthy is the student village of Efferen at the University of Cologne and the media district, built on the site of a brick factory or an industrial wasteland.
• Fischenich (5,026)
  has large farms on the lower Villehang and many small former farmers and miners' cottages up the slope.
• Kendenich (3,089)
  is like Fischenich. The castle Kendenich is one of the landmarks of the city.
• Hermülheim and Kalscheuren (15.499 and 630)
  Hermülheim, with the former town hall on Luxemburger Strasse, was the political center of the community. With Hürth-Mitte , which belongs to Hermülheim, a new city center was created. Kalscheuren was to be developed as a residential area, but today it is mainly designated as an industrial, commercial and media location. Schwätz , the DEGUSSA Russwerk, which emerged from August Wegelin AG , belongs to Cologne-Rodenkirchen .

Flowing waters

The following brooks flow in Hürth:

• The Duffesbach , which rises near Knapsack and mostly canals via Alt-Hürth and Hermülheim, accompanied by the Römerkanal hiking trail , flows through Efferen and the Cologne green belt to Cologne, where it flows into the Rhine . Today it is fed, among other things, by treated wastewater from the Knapsacker works. In some areas near Knapsack, (Alt-) Hürth and between the Hermülheimer Burgpark and Efferen as well as in the green belt it runs above ground. In earlier times the stream seeped away between Efferen and Höningen in the area of ​​today's gravel pits . There were regular disputes between the neighboring communities about water use. The "Hürth War" in 1560 between the city of Cologne and the Hürth lord of the castle, who had a Cologne negotiating delegation imprisoned without further ado, is particularly well known. Thereupon the Cologne team formed a force of around 1000 men, to which the Hürth lord of the castle surrendered without a fight.

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  Pond waters of the hamlet of Bach, outskirts of Fischenich

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  Duffesbach, exit on the border with Cologne

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  Gleueler Bach near Sielsdorf

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  Topographical survey of the Rhineland , Tranchot / Müffling , early 19th century, course of the Burbach

• The Burbach (or Bornbach), which rises today at the Burbach Monastery (formerly near Berrenrath), flows through Burbach towards Stotzheim (from there it is called Stotzheimer Bach), to flow into the Duffesbach below Efferen. Within Alstädten-Burbach, its course marks the border between Alstädten and Burbach. As far as Stotzheim it flows renatured open.
• The Gleueler Bach, which has its source near Berrenrath (formerly at the Sieben Sprüngen) and flows through Gleuel and Sielsdorf to the southern edge canal . It runs largely above ground and renatured. The Gleueler Bach used to run to Kriel, where it flowed into a pond and slowly seeped into the subsoil.
• The hamlet of Bach , which flows from the hamlet of Hof past Fischenich towards Meschenich.
• The Kendenich brook and the floor fin that run down the Villehang between Fischenich and Kendenich do not always carry water today.

In the past, all streams seeped away into the gravel of the middle terrace of the Rhine with normal water flow . Since the water flow through the high water content of lignite in the source area and the gradient of the Villehanges was at least occasionally sufficient to operate mills, 16 mills were laid out in the Hürth area on the first three streams mentioned.

The Romans combined the Duffesbach, Burbach and Gleueler Bach as well as some spring jumps from Bachem in the area of ​​today's Hermülheimer Burgpark, the Roman water pipes in Hürth , and carried them on to Cologne for the water supply of the future city of Cologne . When Roman Cologne got a city wall about 8 m high, this line was raised and led over the wall as an aqueduct . The Eifel water pipeline was introduced into this "Hürth pipe" in the 1st century after the birth of Christ . In the Middle Ages, this supplied water was used for handicrafts and trades (Blaubach, Rotgerberbach etc.) even after the collapse of the aqueduct in Cologne.

Brown coal

Open-cast brown coal mine around 1880

Goldenberg power plant, 1914

900 mm narrow-gauge coal railway locomotive 1036, industrial monument

→ Main article : Brown coal in Hürth

The lignite in the Rhenish lignite mining district was a defining feature of the city for a long time. About a third of the urban area, almost the entire Villerücken, was gradually excavated. Today there are numerous recreational areas and newly reforested forests. The hamlets of Aldenrath and Ursfeld disappeared completely, the population mostly settled in Gleuel. The places Berrenrath and Knapsack were almost completely relocated. Knapsack was not excavated, however, but relocated for environmental reasons.

As a result of the geology of the Lower Rhine Bay and the geomorphology of the Villerück , mining began in the valleys that had cut into the seam-bearing layers, for example, for Hürth on a plain from the former archive of Kendenich Castle from 1769, the Kentenischer and the Hürther Dorffkaulen can be seen in the basin of the Duffesbach . When the turf had been dug up on the slopes, holes were dug and the coal from these holes was partly mined underground and brought up with reels . In loose rock this was not without risk. The charcoal was pressed into shapes like flower pots, turned inside out and dried in the air as lumps . Mine lords were the castle lords and landowners, mine workers the day laborers from the rural population. The first cesspool is occupied for 1685. The first open-cast mine in the Rhenish Revier called Gotteshülfe was established in 1751 in the Gleuel district by the lay judge and farmer Hermann Dümgen. After the industrial extraction of brown coal in the Brühl mining area began in 1877, Ernst and Moritz Ribbert built a stoneware pipe factory in the Kendenich district, on the border with Hermülheim, in 1885 and supplemented it with a steam-powered briquette factory in 1887 , the first in Hürth area. It lasted until an air raid on November 2, 1944. The pits belonging to it were Kendenich and Franziska I , Kendenich. Most recently, the factory from the Berrenrath opencast mine was supplied with a cable car across Hürth, the gondolas of which sometimes fell or let coal fall out. Other pits were around 1895: Engelbert , east of Berrenrath (until around 1928) and Theresia , in the south-east of which the sports facilities on Theresienhöhe were built in 1931. The last coal fields of Theresia were cleared between 1965 and 1983 and that of Gotteshülfe between 1950 and 1976. The Schallmauer pit was on the border with Bachem . 1907, was approved by the union Hürtherberg open to the pit with a remaining hole with the many years after its director Adolf Dasbach named Weiher today reclaimed as a recreational area Hürtherberg is used. Remnants of the briquette factory can still be seen in the corner between Bahn / Duffesbach and Luxemburger Straße. Coal excavators were only used in Hürth between 1909 and 1913. The union recently coaled fields west of Luxemburger Strasse and on the Kranzmaar (now the Hürth location of the Knapsack Chemical Park ). The fields were exhausted in 1960. The factory chimneys were blown up on August 2nd, 1961. The Ribbertwerke and Hürtherberg were connected to the state railway network via the Villebahn , which crossed Luxemburger Straße at ground level at today's fire station and then reached the pits and works at Knapsack above Alt-Hürth. This railway line was shut down and dismantled in 1972. The last pit box as early as 1868 but awarded until 1900 to have the United Ville merged concessions south unlocked by Knapsack 1,901th In 1906, merged with the Roddergrube trade union in Brühl and taken over by RWE in 1920 , this field with seams of up to 60 m thick (the fields on the western slope of the Ville were rarely more than 4 m thick) formed the basis for Hürth's industry and prosperity. The United Ville, Roddergrube and Theresia fields were opened up by electric narrow-gauge railways and connected to the works. As an industrial monument, a railway stands on the edge of Alt-Hürth opposite the mosque. The railway lines could easily follow the dismantling conditions. The last coal in the city was mined here in 1988. Until then, five briquette factories were built on the Bertrams-Jagdweg line in Knapsack in quick succession by 1914 (and a factory that still exists in Berrenrath during the First World War), which not only used their steam to dry and press the coal but also to generate electricity Feed surplus into the power grid. Ville briquette production reached its peak in the 1960s with up to 2.25 million tons per year. Lignite was also the energy source of the chemical industry that settled in Hürth-Knapsack and for the Goldenberg power plant , which was built in 1914 and was the largest in Europe at the time.

Otto Maigler Lake

Briquettes are no longer pressed in Hürth. The Berrenrath coal refining company produces lignite dust for large combustion plants. The coal for this and for today's smaller Goldenberg power plant comes from the northern district . The pits have been recultivated. The Otto-Maigler-See with swimming pool and regatta courses is located in the pit of the Gotteshülfe near Gleuel . A nature reserve is being created in the Ville-Restfeld near Knapsack, just like around the Hürther Waldsee . With the exception of the fish ponds in Fischenich, all of the lakes were created in the last 70 years through lignite mining and subsequent recultivation measures with residual lakes. The larger part of the Ville was used until May 31, 2005 as a landfill for Cologne's household and commercial waste and still for industrial slag . The names of the pits and the protagonists of industrialization are honored and not forgotten in names for roads and lakes.

history

The first traces of settlement in the Hürth area can be found as early as pre-Roman times. There are numerous legacies from Roman and Franconian times, the most striking of which are the remains of the old Eifel aqueduct and the older Roman aqueduct in Hürth , which ensured the water supply for the city of Cologne. They were run as an aqueduct from the Hermülheimer Burgpark.

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  Alt-Hürth, Roman aqueduct
  (at the church)

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  Name-giving: former (1909) Deutschherrenmühle

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  Hürth area, map by Tranchot 1807/08

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  Kendenich Castle, Lithography Collection Alexander Duncker

Hürth was cut through by several Roman roads , such as today's Luxemburger (which is now known as Römerstraße Trier – Cologne as part of the Regionale 2010 Agrippa-Straße Cologne-Trier ) and Bonnstraße. Traces of Roman settlement can be found on the Villehang near Kendenich and in the Hürther and Gleueler Bachtal, and a sacred area near Gleuel. A burial chamber with two sarcophagi was excavated in Efferen and can still be seen today. The Burgus Villa House , a military road post, was located on the city limits of Brühl, near the former forestry "Villenhaus" . On the Kranzmaar near the Luxemburger Straße near Knapsack was a Franconian refugee castle, which was popularly called the Teufelsburg. In the 1970s, the Hoechst company acquired the site and tore down the remains. In Efferen and Hermülheim, important Franconian and Roman burial fields have recently been uncovered.

In the late Middle Ages and early modern times, the area was divided between the Archdiocese of Cologne and the Duchy of Jülich . The district of Hürth (Alt-Hürth) belonged to the lordship of Valkenburg in Brabant and thus to the Spanish , later Austrian Netherlands . After the Rhineland was occupied by French troops in 1794 , the lands were combined into four departments in 1798 . Our area belonged to the Arrondissement de Cologne ( Cologne district) in the Département de la Roer , based in Aachen . In 1800, two mayorships ( Mairie in French ), Hürth in the canton of Brühl and Efferen in the canton of Weiden , were formed in the area of ​​today's town of Hürth . Until 1888, the municipality of Kriel , which comprised several of today's Cologne districts, was part of the Efferen mayor's office . Between 1888 and 1920 the mayor's offices were administered jointly. Mayor at that time was Heinrich Rosell , who had held this office for Hürth since 1878. This joint administration anticipated the later merger, so to speak.

Map of Tranchot: Cologne-Kriel and Lind belong to "Mairie Efferen"

On April 1, 1930, on the initiative of Mayor Werner Disse ( center ), the rural communities of the mayor's office Hürth, Hürth itself (with Alstädten and Knapsack), Berrenrath, Fischenich, Gleuel (with Sielsdorf and Burbach), Hermülheim and Kendenich (with Kalscheuren) united in a large community , which was the richest in Germany due to lignite mining.

After an attempt by the city of Cologne under its then mayor Konrad Adenauer to incorporate the indebted mayor of Efferen in the same year failed, it was assigned to the larger community of Hürth in 1933 together with the associated rural community of Stotzheim, which thereby (until 1978, the year in which the City rights ) became the largest rural municipality in Germany.

After 1933 , the National Socialists also set the tone in the larger community, although they did not initially have a majority in the council. In the local elections on March 12, 1933, they had just become the second strongest party with 22.7% with 6 out of 24 seats (Center 8, SPD 5, KPD 4, others 1 seat), but managed to achieve that in the course of the year Community director Fritz Räcke (SPD) was arrested one day after the elections, as was mayor Werner Disse on March 19, 1933, after he had been deposed by the district administrator (center) the day before. Many communists were arrested before the election. For the fate of the Jewish fellow citizens, reference is made to the section in the article Alt-Hürth . The fate of those harassed back then is remembered today with stumbling blocks and street names. Prisoners of war and forced labor were also employed in the Hürth industry. After the war, the city was able to invite a few as contemporary witnesses. A street in Kalscheuren is also named after an injured slave laborer from Poland, Pawel Kunysz (Deutsche Reichsbahn).

Due to the proximity to industry and Cologne, Hürth suffered particularly in the Second World War . The attacks on Knapsack on October 28, 1944 (54 people including 21 Russian and 6 Italian prisoners of war who were not allowed into the precautionary bunkers and tunnels with numbered spaces, plus 13 people in Alt-Hürth) and on Efferen on September 30th ./31. October 1944 (47 residents and 48 soldiers) cost most of the lives. A total of around 200 citizens of Hürth were killed in bomb attacks. Industry and the briquette factories also came to an almost complete standstill at the end of 1944. The Hürth area was occupied between March 6 and 8, 1945.

The leading employees were almost without exception in the NSDAP and were not employed again by the occupying powers after the end of the war. But without this it would not work either, which is why many were employed again after their denazification to ensure the reconstruction, to which the workers were particularly committed, and the resumption of production. The first local mayors were the Catholic priests (Berrenrath, Knapsack, Kendenich and Stotzheim) or communists (Alstätten and Alt-Hürth) and social democrats (Efferen, Fischenich, Gleuel, Hermülheim and Kalscheuren). Fritz Räcke was appointed mayor. The first members of the local council were also appointed by the British occupying forces. The first elections took place on September 15, 1946, from which the CDU emerged with an absolute majority. In the years that followed, the CDU and SPD alternated as the majority faction, which also provided the honorary mayor. The community director was always a social democrat ( Otto Räcke, who had been on duty for a long time, was from 1953 to 1972).

A landmark of Hürth was the water tower on the Kranzmaar until the 1970s, which was then put down. The "12 apostles", the twelve chimneys of the Goldenberg power station of the Rheinisch Westfälische Elektrizitätswerke on the Villerücken, were visible from afar , and four of them had the RWE logo in large illuminated letters . During the restructuring of the plant, they were gradually torn down or cut off piece by piece. Today only a stump is left that supports a water tower. A double chimney fulfills its function today. One of the landmarks that still exist today is the Kendenich moated castle.

Hürth had been the seat of the district administration of the district of Cologne since November 22, 1963 . The district building was opposite the new town hall. Before - since 1816 - the district administration was located in the city of Cologne. When the Cologne district was merged with the Bergheim district on January 1, 1975 , the newly formed Erftkreis (now the Rhein-Erft district ) initially had two seats. It was not until September 3, 1993 that the district administration was concentrated in Bergheim . For a long time the former district building still housed branches of the road traffic department and the health department. The main building is used by a sleep and psychosomatic clinic , an old people's and nursing home and a fitness center.

On June 27, 1978, the municipality of Hürth received the title city .

The Heimat- und Kulturverein is concerned with the history and culture of the city.

Culture and customs

Löhrerhof Alt-Hürth, built in 1834

The city of Hürth has two municipal event locations for cultural events, the Löhrerhof in Alt-Hürth and the community center connected to the town hall. Exhibitions by local and regional artists are shown in the Bürgerhausgalerie or in the Löhrerhof, including the annual exhibition of the Hürther Artists' Working Group (informally since 1980, registered as an association since 1999, 2009 City Prize).

Every two years the “Hürther Literature Night” takes place in the Löhrerhof, where various authors from the region read from their works. It was initiated by Carsten Sebastian Henn , the then deputy head of the cultural office, author and winner of the culture award of the city of Hürth in 2005. Every autumn, the Hürth jazz club organizes its jazz night in the community center, which is of national importance and also attracts the "big guys" of the scene. In addition, the association organizes regular concerts in the “Jazzkeller” in Gleuel. The summer “Kölsche Nacht” with well-known Cologne song groups at the Otto Maigler Lake , named after Otto Maigler , is also important for the entire Cologne area. The “Hürther Musiksommer” and the theater festival, which has been organized with the district since 2004 for the first time in May 2011, hosted a Hürth theater night at various venues, including the Berli cinema and Gleuel Castle, continue to have or should become tradition .

Feierabendhaus the Yncoris , Knapsack

Special school at Rock am Teich 2009

The scream, Hubert Bruhs - in memory of the victims of National Socialism

An important about local venue is the Feierabendhaus the Yncoris (formerly InfraServ Knapsack) in Knapsack, except in the culture, especially theater take place, also fairs and congresses. The Josef-Metternich Music School has several, including award-winning, musicians and ensembles.

With the Berli-Kino in Berrenrath , Hürth has retained a cinema from the 1950s (monument protection), in which current films are shown every weekend, and on Wednesdays there are sophisticated films from all decades. It was also awarded prize money by the North Rhine-Westphalia Film Foundation for its demanding program (2007: € 2,000). Special screenings and series are regularly organized, for example in the summer as an open-air cinema at the Burbach Monastery or in the winter in the Löhrerhof in cooperation with the cultural office.

At the community center, the Hürth music initiative Hürth Rockt organizes a festival for young, local rock musicians every summer with “Rock am Teich”, with nationally known bands also coming as headliners. Small concerts take place in the municipal youth center on Bonnstrasse.

The Hürth Jazz Club organizes its events in Gleuel, Löhrerhof and Bürgerhaus, which also attract regional attention.

The music corps Rheingold Hürth-Efferen is an eight-time German champion. A large music festival is celebrated in Fischenich every year, which the local carnival society organizes in the schoolyard of the Martinus School.

Other places of culture are the Corrensmühle, the castle and the festival hall in Gleuel.

The carnival is very important in Hürth and has a high priority. Traditionally, Tollities are proclaimed in Alt-Hürth, Gleuel, Stotzheim, Hermülheim, Kalscheuren, Efferen, Fischenich, Kendenich and Berrenrath , whether as a triumvirate , a pair of princes or as a single prince or princess. In Berrenrath a princess is proclaimed every year. Every year the city invites you to the Prince's Reception, a large carnival party in the community center. From November 11th, a large number of events of the numerous carnival associations will take place in the towns, including those with supraregional appeal in the Efferen Castle Park.

The carnival reaches its climax on six days in February / March. On Weiberfastnacht the town hall is stormed by the Jecken women . Parades take place in Berrenrath on Thursday, in Alt-Hürth on Carnival Saturday, in Efferen, Fischenich and Hermülheim on Carnival Sunday, in Gleuel, Kendenich and Sielsdorf on Rose Monday and in Alstädten-Burbach, Stotzheim and Kalscheuren on Violet Tuesday. Then there are the children's trains in schools and kindergartens.

In November, around Martin's Day (November 11), the schools and kindergartens in every district organize parades with torches and homemade lanterns at dusk, accompanied by a rider dressed as St. Martin in a golden helmet and red coat . The traditional Martin songs are sung. The processions conclude with the Martinsfeuer, during which St. Martin's Weckmänner , a bread in the shape of a man with a plaster pipe, is distributed to the participants. The children then move from house to house (they “rumble”), singing, and receive sweets, fruit or other little things from the citizens. In recent years, due to the massive influx of young foreign families, the Halloween celebration on All Saints' Day has started to gain in importance, in addition to the Martins custom.

In some Catholic families, the feast day of St. Barbara is celebrated on December 4th. The patron saint of miners was especially venerated in the Rhenish coal mining area. The children are encouraged to put their shoes in front of the fireplace or the door of their room on the eve of December 6th, St. Nicholas Day. The next morning they find the shoes filled with sweets and fruit. For some ("bad") adults, however, there is only one briquette in the shoe.

Culture award of the city of Hürth

The City of Hürth has awarded the City of Hürth Culture Prize every second year since 1979.

Award winners (selection)

• 1981 Hubert Bruhs , sculptor
• 1985 Tilman Röhrig , writer
• 1995 Willi Laschet , painter and graphic artist
• 2005 Carsten Sebastian Henn , author and Seak , graffiti artist

Denominations, religious life

Catholic parishes

Alt-Huerth, Alt St. Katharina, the oldest church building in the city

There are Catholic parishes in every district except Sielsdorf and Knapsack. The patronage of the resettled Knapsacker St. Joseph parish was taken over by the parish church built in the church center of Hermülheim (Hürth-Mitte).

The parishes are usually merged into parish associations and are then looked after jointly by a pastoral care team consisting of a responsible pastor and several vicars (retired pastors), pastoral consultants , pastoral assistants and deacons . Two churches have already been profaned. Many of the churches are under monument protection , including St. Ursula in Kalscheuren, profaned in 2006 and built by Professor Dominikus Böhm . The places Alstädten, Burbach, Kalscheuren, Hermülheim, Stotzheim, Berrenrath and Knapsack were not assigned to their own parishes until the 19th and early 20th centuries, but rather surrounding localities. The Burbach Monastery was also responsible for Berrenrath. The oldest communities are likely to be those in Alt-Hürth, Efferen and Kendenich. (For the history of the parishes and churches see local articles)

Evangelical community

Friedenskirche, now the oldest Protestant church in Hürth

The Protestant parish of Hürth is divided into three districts:

• District I: Hürth-Mitte, Hermülheim, Alt-Hürth and Knapsack with the Martin Luther King Church
• District II: Gleuel, Berrenrath, Sielsdorf, Stotzheim, Alstädten-Burbach with the Martin Luther Church
• District III: Efferen, parts of Hermülheim, Kendenich, Fischenich and Kalscheuren with the Friedenskirche

History of the Evangelicals in Hürth

former community center Kölnstrasse

Until the end of the 19th century there were only very few Protestant Christians in Hürth. That changed only with industrialization and the massive influx of workers from all over the German Reich. The Evangelicals in the individual districts were initially from Frechen for Gleuel, Burbach, Sielsdorf, Stotzheim and Berrenrath (until 1921), Brühl (after 1948 still Fischenich , Hermülheim and Kalscheuren) and Cologne-Lindenthal (Efferen, Stotzheim). The Evangelical Church Community Knapsack with (Alt-) Hürth, Kendenich and Berrenrath was founded in 1921 as a branch of Brühl and released in 1948. The community had over 3,200 souls in the mid-1950s. But it was not until January 1st, 1957 that all Protestants residing in the area of ​​the large civil parish of Hürth united to form the new Protestant parish of Hürth with a total of around 9,000 souls at that time. The congregation had only one pastor, one parish deacon (pastor) and one preacher ( catechist ). The community was divided again on April 1, 1966, the Gleuel district split off. Since January 1, 2015, both communities have been “reunited”.

The first preaching site was created in Knapsack with (1921–1943) a “wooden church” on Bertrams-Jagdweg. The Dankeskirche, built in 1951 on Dr.-Kraus-Straße with the support of local industry, and the rectory built in 1926 on Haupt- / Alleestraße were demolished with the resettlement of Knapsack in 1975. Kendenich took over the crucifix and communion implements, baptismal font and bell, and the wooden pulpit , richly illustrated with reliefs , later served in Hürth-Mitte. Other churches were the Friedenskirche in Efferen (1952/53), the Martin Luther Church in Gleuel (1956), in Hermülheim the Kölnstrasse church center with a parish hall (which was to be expanded into a church), a kindergarten and a parish apartment (1958/59 ), which has also housed the parish administration since the church in Knapsack was demolished, and (as a replacement for Knapsack) the Nathan Söderblom Church in Kendenich (1973). With Fischenich, Alt-Hürth and Knapsack, the smallest district in terms of souls (1900) but largest in terms of extent was created here. Most recently, the Martin Luther King Church was added in the new city center (1979). The small church center on Kölnstrasse, which had been built there with a view to developing the development in the direction of Kalscheuren, lost its importance from then on. When the congregation was founded, there were reports of preaching sites in the schools in the other districts (once a month) in Stotzheim, Fischenich / Kendenich, Kalscheuren (until 1959) and Berrenrath (there was even a church building association there), but these became less and less frequent and the increasing mobility of parishioners. For financial reasons, on June 15, 2008, the church in Kendenich was divested. Equipment and baptismal fonts were transferred to Hürth-Mitte. The pastor's office was abolished and the district divided. The districts and the number of parishioners had not developed in such a way that this neat parish center, which a few years earlier had been expanded to include parish and youth rooms, could be maintained.

In 2011 the community center on Kölnstrasse was given up and demolished in 2012. A residential and administrative building for the GWG housing company Rhein-Erft was built here. As a reminder of the church hall, the glass window by EO Köpke from the Dankeskirche in Knapsack, which was installed in the church hall, was taken over into the stairwell of the administration building. The day care center was built in the vicinity and under new sponsorship close to the church. The parish office is now at the Friedenskirche.

Other parishes and denominations

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  New Apostolic Church, Hermülheim

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  New Apostle. Church, prayer room

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  Mosque-Alt-Hürth
  "Hürth Camii"

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  Memorial plaque for the former synagogue

• There is a New Apostolic Church in Hermülheim (Lessingstrasse) . The New Apostolic parish for the Hürth area was founded in 1921. The first services were held in the kitchen of the Herkenrath siblings in Berrenrath. In July 1962 the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of our own church building took place at Lessingstrasse 48, in Hürth-Hermülheim. The church was consecrated in June 1964. In 2000, the communities of Gleuel and Hermülheim were merged to form the community of Hürth. As of March 1, 2006, it has 229 members and 9 part-time pastors.
• A mosque was opened on May 22, 2004 on Frechener Strasse, above Alt-Hürth .
• Until March 1939 there was a synagogue in Alt-Hürth . The Hürth Jewish cemetery was leveled in 1940. The Jewish community of the then large community of Hürth was almost completely killed or driven into exile during the National Socialist era . (→ section at Alt-Hürth )

The city library

Archives and Libraries

The Hürth city library is located in the community center on Friedrich-Ebert-Straße. Founded in 1948/49, it now offers over 40,000 media on 807.8563 square meters. A focus of the collection are works on training and career choices, as well as application guides. The city library is also involved in the field of children's and youth literature. In this area, the library has been provided with separate funds since 2002 for the substantial expansion and expansion of its holdings. Through the years of holding children's events, the city library is now in close contact with the Hürth schools and actively promotes reading in this cooperation. The opening times and further information can be found on the municipal website. The city archive under the professional management of a historian is also located in the community center.

Open bookcase

Other public libraries are operated by individual parishes in the districts. In 1988 there were twelve such, including two Protestant ones. Today there are still four: in Gleuel, Alstädten / Burbach, Kendenich and Efferen. They have between 2000 and 8000 (Efferen) media and cooperate - like St. Maria am Brunnen in Alstädten - with the local elementary school. Opening times are one to two hours on Sunday mornings and usually one more hour on a weekday afternoon.

The Albert Schweitzer Library at the grammar school of the same name is new with 3000 media, including 1500 non-fiction books, which was set up with the help of the Friends' Association.

All of these non-urban libraries are looked after by volunteers.

The local community operates a public bookcase in the center of Hermülheim, Luxemburger Strasse / Hans-Böckler-Strasse . On April 3, 2019, another open bookcase was inaugurated in Hürth-Efferen, Kaulardstrasse 20-22, donated by the Innogy company .

schools

The economic power of the city made it possible for Hürth to be the first place in the area around Cologne to set up a middle school as the first secondary school on April 1, 1940 . The school in the Hermülheim district also attracted students from outside the city. After a year break 1945/1946 14 pupils left in April 1947, the then already Realschule designated body with the testimony of GCSEs , including the later Bruhler entrepreneurs and ADAC -President Otto Flimm . The school has been called Friedrich-Ebert -Realschule since 1960 . High school students from Hürth either had to go to Brühl or Cologne-Lindenthal.

Ernst-Mach-Gymnasium, student work for a graduation party and farewell gift to the school

In 1960 the construction of his own grammar school began, initially in barracks at the secondary school. Since 2005 the school conference has chosen the name Ernst-Mach-Gymnasium Hürth for the school with the approval of the city council. The school was previously called Gymnasium Hürth Bonnstrasse.

In 1974, when planning a new school center on Sudetenstrasse, it became necessary to expand the range of schools. A second grammar school was built, also unique for a medium-sized town. Since 1991, the grammar school has been known as the Albert Schweitzer grammar school due to the great commitment of the school to and for projects in the Third World . In 1989 the school was the first school in Germany to introduce a bilingual German / Spanish branch.

These three secondary schools have student numbers that push them to the limit of their capacity. The grammar schools around 1000 and the secondary school over 750.

A first comprehensive school was set up in the 2014/15 school year. A new building will be erected in the Sudetenstrasse school center for the school, which will then have five sections in 2016/17. For the time being, the first four parallel classes will be accommodated in the Dr. Kürten School.

There is a community secondary school in Kendenich as an all-day school. The previous GHS on Sudetenstrasse was dissolved at the end of the 2013/14 school year and the remaining students were integrated into the GHS Kendenich.

There are two special schools in the city. The Milos Sovak School in Stotzheim with a focus on language is maintained by the district as a through school for levels 1 to 4 with a pre-school class and is of supra-local importance. The Dr.-Kürten School , named after Arnold Kürten , focuses on learning, language and emotional and social development. It offers primary and secondary level I.

There is one primary school each in the districts of Hermülheim, Kendenich, Fischenich, Gleuel, Berrenrath and Alstädten-Burbach, and two each in Efferen and Alt-Hürth. The only Protestant denominational school in Hürth is the Bodelschwingh School in Alt-Hürth, plus several Catholic ones.

Elementary school in Kendenich

In the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Haus, a boarding school run by Diakonie Michaelshoven , 37 pupils with a physical disability live and study.

The state vocational schools are sponsored by the Rhein-Erft district. One of five schools at seven locations is the Goldenberg Vocational College in Alt-Hürth, a school for technology and design with a high school level . There, in connection with technical or creative training, a number of general educational qualifications can be obtained in part-time and full-time up to general university entrance qualification. The college was the first in the circle to successfully pass the extensive certification process for the European School and was awarded in February 2010 by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for its international exchange programs with schools and companies in eight European countries.

The Alexandra-Klausa vocational college for curative education care, which is privately owned by Lebenshilfe NRW , has been located in the Gleuel district since 1996 . There it cooperates for practical training with the neighboring Käthe Kraemer special needs day care center .

In 2010 , the first non-public vocational college for the industrial sector was set up at the Rhein-Erft-Akademie , the training and further education facility of the chemical park. It offers training for chemical technicians, industrial mechanics and clerks and, since 2012, electrical engineering. The advanced technical college entrance qualification can also be acquired here. The interlinking with in-company training is emphasized.

Since autumn 2007 there has been an extra-occupational bachelor's degree in process engineering in cooperation with the Aachen University of Applied Sciences . The first three semesters are completed in Hürth, the fourth to seventh at the Jülich location and the eighth with a final project in the cooperating company. Further collaborations exist with the European University of Applied Sciences in Brühl and the University of Applied Sciences for medium-sized companies , Pulheim location. As a branch office, Hürth is therefore a university location.

VHS, Ahl Schull Efferen, Bachstrasse

The Josef Metternich music school of the city of Hürth in Hermülheim and the adult education center of the association of four cities in the south of the Rhein-Erft district with a school building, the Ahl Schull , in Efferen round off the educational offer in Hürth.

Day care centers

In all of the larger districts there are usually several day-care centers from various providers. The larger institutions have up to six groups. The church-run kindergartens that used to dominate were not increased. Some had to be taken over by the city. The only Protestant KiTa could be handed over to another Protestant institution. One of the special facilities is the KiTa of the Lebenshilfe for disabled children in Gleuel. A forest kindergarten has existed in the Hürtherberg local recreation area since summer 2011 . The private KiTa Glückskind in Efferen (in the Malerviertel, built in 2010) was joined by a children's hotel with 6 beds at the end of 2011.

youth

The city operates a centrally located youth center on Bonnstrasse. In the districts there are mostly part- open door facilities run by the Catholic parishes , which are usually only open on a few afternoons and only for young people of a certain age. Particularly noteworthy is the Fischnet an St. Martinus facility in Fischenich, which is particularly keen to integrate young people into work. The Protestant Matthäus-Kirchengemeinde also runs the children's studio in Hermülheim, a facility that offers music, computer, art and cooking courses that are open to all young people. Then there is the church youth work of the denominations.

The football fields in many parts of the city are only used very rarely or not at all. Only the children's playgrounds with their play and climbing equipment and sandboxes are accepted by parents with small children. This is especially true for the new development areas, in which many young families have moved. Corresponding places in Alt-Hürth, however, are rather orphaned. The schoolyards are usually open for afternoon games. The central venue is the leisure facility next to the indoor swimming pool in Hermülheim (Hürth-Mitte). In addition to a children's playground, a basketball field, two volleyball courts, a trampoline and a table tennis table, a halfpipe is available there. A former hall for skating has since been demolished due to the danger of collapse.

Seniors

The city has had a senior citizens' advisory council since May 2006 , the 13 members of which are appointed from the city districts by the council at the suggestion of the local communities . Its task is to represent the interests of all senior citizens towards the council and administration. There is also a coordination office for senior citizens in the administration that supports and coordinates activities for senior citizens. It publishes a guide that lists the offers for the older residents of the clubs and groups.

Work with senior citizens is carried out in particular by the Arbeiterwohlfahrt in their own premises in the larger city districts, the churches in their community centers and the large parties. Open to all seniors is the senior network dandelion supported by the Evangelical Matthäus-Kirchengemeinde in a house made available in Hermülheim.

politics

City council

Local election 2014

Turnout: 49.19% (2009: 54.77%)

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50

40

30th

20th

10

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34.95%

42.09%

10.75%

3.35%

3.98%

3.73%

1.15%

SPD

CDU

Green

FDP

left

FWH

Pirates

Gains and losses

compared to 2009

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-5.46  % p

+4.29  % p

+1.07  % p

-4.57  % p.p.

-0.21  % p

+ 3.73  % p.p.

+1.15  % p.p.

SPD

CDU

Green

FDP

left

FWH

Pirates

The city council consists of 44 people. In the local elections on June 25, 2014 , the 44 seats in the city council were distributed as follows:

• CDU : 18 members (+1)
• SPD : 15 members (−3)
• GREEN : 5 members (+1)
• LEFT : 2 members (+2)
• FWH : 2 members (± 0)
• FDP : 1 member (−2)
• Pirate Party : 1 member (+1)

Remarks:

1. ↑ The faction “Free Voters Hürth” consists of former members of the Left who moved into the council in 2009 for them, but later fell out with the party and renamed the faction. Both council members returned to the city council in 2014 as “Free Voters Hürth”.
2. ^ The mandate holders of the FDP and Piraten founded a common parliamentary group. The parliamentary group disbanded in 2016.

The FDP pirate faction disbanded at the end of 2016. The city councilor of the pirates first changed parties and became a member of the Greens. The CDU / The Greens parliamentary group in Hürth refused to accept the "new" Green member into the existing parliamentary group. Thus, the city councilor Alexandra Osburg is now non-party and non-attached member and can therefore not exercise her mandate in full. The city councilor of the FDP joined the SPD after considerable quarrels with the FDP. The parliamentary group accepted the new member. Since then, the Hürth SPD parliamentary group has had 16 members in the Hürth city council.

The Hürth City Council is currently composed of the following parliamentary groups or non-attached members

• CDU parliamentary group: 18 members
• SPD parliamentary group: 16 members
• Greens Group: 5 members
• Left parliamentary group: 2 members
• Free voters: 2 members
• Non-attached members: 1

After the local elections in 2009 there was a cooperation between the SPD, the Greens and the FDP. This alliance had a majority of 25 votes. There has been a coalition of the CDU and the Greens since 2014.

mayor

Mayor Walther Boecker was confirmed in his office in 2009 with around 56%. Peter Prinz (CDU) was elected as the first deputy of the mayor and Günter Reiners (SPD) as the second. In the mayoral election on September 13, 2015, the CDU candidate Dirk Breuer prevailed with 56.4% of the votes in the first ballot.

Town hall and town hall

Memorial at the town hall, donated by Degussa in 1985.

Brick relief on the town hall of the Hürth artists Schausten and Schlasa

Mayor since 1800:

• Karl Josef Scholl (1800–1808)
• Adam Josef Scholl (1809-1817)
• Heinrich Felten (1817–1845)
• Engelbert Grouven (1845)
• Johann Peter Weygold (1845-1851)
• Franz Josef Rosell (1851–1876)
• Heinrich Rosell (1876–1920)
• Werner Disse (center), (1920–1930)

Mayor of the Hürth community since 1930:

• Werner Disse (center), (1930–1933)
• Heinrich Goß ( NSDAP ), (1933–1944)
• Jakob Zimmermann (NSDAP), (1944–1945)

Mayor since 1945:

• Fritz Räcke (†), SPD, (1945–1946), full-time, 1920–1933 and from 1946 community director
• Heinrich Poll (†), KPD (1946)
• Karl Pimpertz (†), CDU, (1946–1948)
• Jakob Esser (†), SPD, (1948–1956)
• Heinrich Vomhof (†), SPD (1956–1961)
• Karl Ingenerf (†), CDU, (1961–1965, honorary citizen )
• Hanns Conzen (†), CDU, (1965–1979)
• Rudi Tonn (†), SPD, (1979–1999, honorary citizen)

Full-time mayor since 1999:

• Walther Boecker , SPD, (1999–2015), 1996–1999 City Director
• Dirk Breuer , CDU, (from 2015)

Political development

The SPD was the dominant political force in Hürth for many years, and in the 1950s it also worked closely with the communists. Hürth was considered a "red stronghold". In 1961, the CDU became the strongest force in the council and, with the support of the FDP, was able to provide mayors with Karl Ingenerf and Hanns Conzen until 1979. From 1969 onwards, the SPD was again the largest parliamentary group, but still in the minority compared to the bourgeois camp. Between 1979 and 1999, under Mayor Rudi Tonn, the SPD had an absolute majority in the city council. From 1999 to 2004 a black and yellow alliance had a majority in the council. Since the local elections in 2009, a cooperation between the SPD (18 seats), the Greens (4 seats) and the FDP (3 seats) has determined the fate of the city. Since 2014, the CDU has again been the strongest parliamentary group in the council. It forms a coalition with the Greens.

The primary task for politics and administration will be the consolidation of the budget. Another concern of local politics in the last decades was to give the city a center and to let it grow together. The realization of this center between Alt-Hürth and Hermülheim ("Hürth-Mitte" belongs to the Hermülheim district) with the Hürth Park shopping center, new town hall, post office, two churches, two high schools, central secondary school, swimming pool and condensed residential development, right next to the already Central Stadium, built in the 1930s, is an expression of these efforts.

The city administration is divided into four departments, one of which reports directly to the mayor. The city treasurer imposed a budget freeze on July 23, 2009 due to the precarious financial situation of the city. The problematic situation can be attributed, among other things, to the fact that the city's trade tax revenue fell from 40 to an expected 20 million euros between 2007 and 2009.

From the district council election in 2014, the CDU again emerged as the strongest force in Hürth with 41.9%. In the district assembly of the Rhein-Erft district, the city of Hürth is represented by the directly elected district assembly members Willi Zylajew , Frank Rock, Otto Winkelhag and Gerd Fabian (CDU) as well as by district assembly members Bert Reinhardt, Oliver Scheffler and Klaus Lennartz (SPD ), Nicole Kolster, Horst Lambertz and Dr. Friederike Seydel (Greens) and Martina Thomas (LINKE) represented.

City or community directors

Until 1999 the city administration was headed by a full-time city director who was elected by the council. The office of mayor was previously an honorary post, both functions merged in the office of full-time mayor, who is directly elected by the population. City or community directors since 1946:

Community directors

• Fritz Räcke (†) (SPD) 1946
• Albert Lüttgenau (†) 9 / 1946–1 / 1947
• Josef Arens (CDU) (†) 1947–1953
• Otto Räcke (†) (SPD), son of Fritz Räcke, 1953–1972
• Georg Rogge (SPD) 1972–1978

City Directors

• Georg Rogge (SPD) 1978–1991
• Heribert Rohr (SPD) 1991–1995
• Walther Boecker (SPD) 1996–1999

Politics in the neighborhoods

The twelve districts of Hürth are divided into nine city districts. Each municipality has a mayor, who is proposed by the party that receives the highest percentage of votes in the municipal elections in the municipality. Since 2014, the CDU has provided seven mayor (Thomas Fund in Alt-Hürth / Knapsack, Peter Prinz in Alstädten-Burbach, Gerd Fabian in Berrenrath, Raimund Westphal in Fischenich, Otto Winkelhag in Stotzheim / Sielsdorf, Hans-Josef Lang in Hermülheim / Kalscheuren, Thomas Blank in Efferen), the SPD two (Frank Baer in Kendenich, Hannelore Pantke-Reinhardt in Gleuel).

Sovereignty symbols

coat of arms

Blazon : “Divided and split above; in front at the top in black a red armored silver eagle, at the back at the top in silver a continuous black cross, at the bottom in red half a silver cogwheel. "

Reason for coat of arms: The coat of arms was awarded on October 26, 1934 by decree of the Prussian State Ministry. The first suggestions for the creation and design of a coat of arms came from the elementary school principal, local history researcher and honorary monument conservator Arnold Hillen. It was finally designed by the Berlin heraldist Gustav Adolf Closs . It consists of three parts: Adler : The eagle is taken from the coat of arms of the Knights Hürth von Schöneck , although it is a curious historical error. At the time of the award of the coat of arms, it was assumed that the von Schöneck family in the Eifel came from the knight de Hurte family, which was mentioned several times in the 13th century . The latter, however, apparently died out early and the people of Eifel really have nothing to do with the Hürthers. The Hürth local history researcher Clemens Klug therefore found it regrettable in 1961 that the silver eagle of the Hürth von Schöneck family was included in the community's coat of arms. But in the meantime this mistake is history again, which is why the coat of arms will certainly not and should not be changed. Black Cross : The cross of the Electorate of Cologne, to which most of Hürth's districts belonged from the Middle Ages for several centuries until the march of the French revolutionary troops in 1794. Because of this cross, the National Socialist authorities initially did not want to approve the coat of arms, as Christian symbols were not welcomed at the time. The State Archives in Düsseldorf saved the draft by cleverly explaining in its statement that the cross was actually not that of the Archbishop of Cologne, but that of the Teutonic Order, which had a commander in Hermülheim from 1256 to 1802 . Since, after the end of the Crusades, this German order had primarily pursued the colonization and Germanization of what would later become the German East (West and East Prussia), which, as is well known, the Nazis intended to continue to the east, the coat of arms could now be approved. Silver half gear : It symbolizes the large and heavy industry in Hürth , which began with the construction of the first briquette factories in 1885 by Moritz Wilhelm Ribbert and which still determines the economic life of the city, at least in part. In the first half of the 20th century, Hürth was an outspoken industrial and industrial workers' community with numerous lignite mines and briquette factories, an important chemical industry and the Goldenberg power plant built in 1914, the largest and most modern lignite power plant in Germany at the time.

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  Hoist flag

flag

The city of Hürth was also granted the right to fly a flag in a certificate issued by the district president in Cologne on February 24, 1984.

Description of the flag: “Striped lengthways by red and white in a ratio of 1: 1, then shifted to the pole with the city's coat of arms. The flag can be carried in the form of a banner and a hoist flag. "

traffic

Rail transport

Hürth belongs to the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (VRS). In the district Kalscheuren lies Hürth-Kalscheuren station . The station was on the initiative and at the expense of the city Huerth, which it promised an image gain for that time 14,000 in early 1992  DM of Kalscheuren in Huerth-Kalscheuren renamed. There the Eifel route Cologne - Gerolstein - Trier branches off from the left Rhine route Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz . The Eifel Railway RB 24 Cologne – Jünkerath – Trier (Eifel route) and the Middle Rhine Railway RB 26 Cologne – Koblenz – Mainz (left Rhine route) stop . The Rhein-Wupper-Bahn RB 48 Wuppertal – Cologne – Bonn (left Rhine route) has also been traveling to Hürth-Kalscheuren since December 2015. All lines are operated every hour, but the RB 48 line stops twice an hour in Hürth during rush hour between Monday and Friday.

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  Directions to the Hürth center, district and community center

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  Hürth Park shopping center with Hürth Mitte / ZOB stop

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  Tram stop Hürth-Hermülheim

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  Hürth-Kalscheuren station, arriving train on line RB 48

Hürth is also located on the formerly independent Vorgebirgsbahn of the former Cologne-Bonn Railways (KBE), which is now operated as Stadtbahn line 18 . The Efferen and Kiebitzweg stops and the Hürth-Hermülheim and Fischenich train stations are located in the city . Freight traffic on the route was discontinued and relocated to the Wesseling (port), (DB crossing) Brühl-Vochem / - Kendenich Gbf, Knapsack / Berrenrath section. In contrast, the “Black Railway” from Cologne-Sülz via Knapsack to Berrenrath was closed to passenger traffic at the end of 1968. For freight traffic to the Knapsack Chemical Park with a container terminal and for the transport of briquettes, however, it is still in operation (connected to the Kendenich freight station - transition to the DB - and from there via the cross line to Wesseling to the Rhine port) and also served as a connection to the Villebahn until 1972 which served as a connecting line between the lignite works and the KBE (CBK) or the state railway in Kalscheuren and ran largely parallel to the north of Alt-Hürth. The construction of a branch line of the light rail from the Hürth-Hermülheim station on the Vorgebirgsbahn to the Hermülheim city and shopping center is in planning . The realization of this project has so far failed due to the question of cost coverage.

Another important thing is the north-south railway (Garzweiler) from RWE Power, which brings lignite from the new deep opencast mines in the north of the mining area to the older briquette factories and power plants in Hürth.

Bus transport

There are also numerous bus routes. The Rhine Erft public transport company (REVG) offers from the bus station at the city railway station in Hermülheim from the lines 935 via Cologne-Meschenich to Brühl-Mitte (light rail) 960 via Frechen Rathaus (city rail) and Kerpen to Bergheim and 979 on Erftstadt to Zülpich . From the Hürth-Mitte bus station, line 910 leads via Stotzheim and Sielsdorf to Frechen , line 978 connects Berrenrath and Cologne main station , but does not go to the center of Hürth. In addition, the Cologne Transport Company (KVB) connects the Hürth-Kalscheuren and Cologne-Meschenich train stations with line 192 with minibuses during rush hour. In the town there are eight city ​​bus routes operated by Stadtverkehr Hürth GmbH (SVH) , two of which (715 and 717) are purely school bus routes only a few times a day. These do not run on Sundays or public holidays. There is also a collective call taxi system that takes over urban traffic in the late evening hours and on Sundays. Lines 711 (Hürth Mitte – Berrenrath), 712 (Hürth Mitte – Efferen), 713 (Hürth Mitte – Kendenich – Fischenich), 714 (Hürth Mitte – Kalscheuren – Fischenich), 718 (Hürth Mitte – Hermülheim – Fischenich) and 720 ( Hürth Mitte-Hermülheim Stadtbahn) run every 20 minutes on workdays during the day, all day on Saturdays and every half hour on weekdays, except for line 718.

The Neoplan low-floor buses, which date back to the early days of the Hürther city bus, were replaced in 2009 by new, more environmentally friendly Citaro vehicles from Mercedes-Benz . The original plan was for hydrogen-powered city ​​buses to run in Hürth from the end of 2009 . This was decided on August 28, 2008 by the council of Stadtwerke Hürth, until 2014 no more carbon dioxide should be emitted in all local public transport, as far as it is operated by the city. According to later information, however, it was unclear whether the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG , with which the city initially negotiated the construction of the hydrogen buses, wanted to build them at all. Hürth would have good prerequisites for operating hydrogen buses, since Vinnolit, which is based in Hürth and produces polyvinyl chloride, produces a lot of hydrogen as a by-product. Instead, on April 27, new, conventional, but environmentally friendly city buses of the type Mercedes-Benz Citaro were presented, which have been in service in Hürth and Brühl since then. The cooperation between the transport companies is intended to save maintenance costs. The buses have been awarded the “ Blue Angel ” environmental seal of approval .

Road traffic

Via the interchanges Gleuel and Hurth (AS Hurth was formerly Knapsack ) is the city directly to the A 1 connected. The eastern districts and the Kalscheuren industrial area also use the federal motorway 553 from Brühl for the access to the A 1 / A 61 or alternatively the B 265 . The Cologne-Bonn motorway , A 555, can also be reached from there via the L 150. The Köln-Klettenberg junction on federal motorway 4 (Kölner Ring) is only a few hundred meters north of the Efferen district, right on the city limits. The city has its own motorway ring close to the city, including a few parts of the neighboring cities.

The B 265, Luxemburger Straße , Trier –Köln, with the Bonnstraße L 183 / K 2, which runs along the foothills, are the traffic intersection for local and regional traffic in Hürth. For years there have been plans to relieve the Efferen and Hermülheim districts by means of a bypass of the Luxemburger Straße, the B 265n. Construction finally started in November 2015. Completion is expected in 2019.

On June 25, 2008, the Hürther Bogen was opened, an inner-city street that connects Hürth Park and Theresienhöhe Street directly with Luxemburger Strasse. In addition to residential buildings, office and business premises are also to be created on both sides. A wide green strip is laid out between the directional lanes, which would give way to the planned extension of the tram to the Hürth Park shopping center, if this is implemented.

economy

Coal - chemistry

The open-cast lignite mining in the Rhenish lignite district and the RWE lignite power plant Goldenberg , in its wake the energy-intensive chemical raw materials industry, once brought Hürth to wealth. After its expiry (1988) and the structural change in chemistry, a diverse mix of industries, mainly chemical and energy industries, but also services, emerged on Knapsack Hill (the only part of the Ville that was not depleted). These include YNCORIS GmbH & Co. KG (formerly InfraServ GmbH & Co. Knapsack KG) as the operating company of the Knapsack Chemical Park , RWE Power AG and the Rheinpapier -Papierfabrik. After Berrenrath, the only remaining briquette factory in the southern part of the Ville / Berrenrath with a power station follows . The factory parts south of Alt-Hürth (chlorine chemistry polyvinyl chloride ), which are connected to Knapsack by product and process steam lines, also belong to the chemical park. Hürth relies on district heating. The supply of the new building center in Hürth-Mitte began in 1967 . District heating has been decoupled from the Goldenbergwerk power plant since 1971. The network is being expanded rapidly, also beyond the city limits to the Marsdorf industrial park. Most recently, additional district heating was obtained from Evonik Degussa's carbon black plant in Kalscheuren. In the future, the municipal utilities want to build a biomass cogeneration plant in conjunction with other municipal utilities in order to become somewhat more independent from industry. Stadtwerke has been a member of the HyCologne network , the Rhineland hydrogen region, since 2007, which aims to make this by-product of the chemical park accessible to hydrogen technology, especially for car and bus traffic. The gas station opened in 2010. The first buses were refueled and deployed in 2011.

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  Water tower and industry, "Knapsack Chemical Park"

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  RWE Goldenberg power plant, Knapsack

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  Kalscheuren, media center

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  Efferen, media center

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The bakery company Klein's Backstube has existed since 1872 .

MP Medienpark NRW in Hürth-Kalscheuren

The media industry has gained a foothold in Efferen and Kalscheuren. Hürth is the largest location in Europe for private television productions ( Wer wird Millionär? Among others), which are produced by companies such as Eyeworks or MMC .

There are extensive industrial areas in Efferen and Kalscheuren, Gleuel, Hürth-Hermülheim and Knapsack.

Hürth Park has existed since 1977 , a shopping center of supraregional importance that has a formative character for Hürth. The UCI Kinowelt , the first multiplex cinema in Germany , has been located there since 1990 .

Overall, Hürth has a positive commuter rate, which means that more people come to work in Hürth than people from Hürth travel to other cities.

Hotel industry and tourism

Hotel on the Theresienhöhe

Friends of Nature House

Located Huerth near Cologne, was already before the First World War for the tourism outgoing. It was only the excursion restaurants (Kranzmaar and Hürther Talmühle) and the post horse changing stations on Luxemburger Strasse, but soon smaller hotels were built in the districts, which are still frequented today. The Naturfreunde tourist association built a small youth hostel in the 1950s on the edge of the local recreation area Hürtherberg . With the growing importance of Hürth as a service and media location, a hotel with over 300 beds was built on Theresienhöhe in 1992.

Hiking and recreation

Kalscheurer pond

Hürth borders on the Outer Cologne Green Belt , which can be hiked through a circular route and the longer Cologne Path . There you can go kayaking on the Decksteiner Weiher and the Kalscheurer Weiher. Then Hürth borders in the south on the Villeseen in the Rhineland Nature Park , which can be hiked from Kendenich with lengths of 5, 10 or 13 km through a permanent hiking trail of the hiking journeyman Alt-Hürth in the German Volkssportverband , the German section of the IVV , the Villeseenwanderweg . On the Liblarer See can sail one on which only partially protected natural Bleibtreusee is a swimming beach and a water ski lift . Recreational areas within the urban area are the Otto Maigler Lake , which belongs to the nature park, and the neighboring nature reserve of the Hürther Waldsee , which can be hiked on a circular trail of 7 or 13 km, also supervised by the journeymen. At the Otto-Maigler-See there is an attractive public bathing area where pop concerts take place. In summer it complements the indoor and outdoor pools in the center of Hürth. Rowing, windsurfing and, as with all lakes (outside the nature reserves), fishing are possible on the lake . There is also a small circular route around the Adolf-Dasbach-Weiher in the local recreation area Hürtherberg with a viewpoint on the northeast corner. Long-distance hiking trails include the Roman Canal hiking trail leading through Hürth and the cycling and hiking trail along the Roman Agrippa road Cologne – Trier . One of the routes on the Way of St. James , Route 2 in the Rhineland, also called Via Coloniensis , leads from Cologne via Efferen, Hermülheim, Kendenich and Fischenich and Brühl through the Eifel to Trier. In Hürth it is partly identical to the Roman Canal hiking trail. Finally, linking Experience Trail southwest of Regio green within the Action Regionale 2010 the Cologne green belt on the Duffesbach and Otto Maigler lake over with the Rhineland Nature Park.

Gastronomy centers

With Luxemburger Strasse , Hürth has one of the most important and heavily frequented long-distance routes that has always attracted catering establishments and where numerous restaurants can still be found today. Today, three system catering establishments have set up shop on the green meadow between the Efferen and Hermülheim districts, speculating with parking spaces on supra-local, especially Cologne, customers: McDonald’s the first, Cafe Del Sol (2011) and most recently L'Osteria (2014) .

In the center of Alt-Hürth, on the other hand, there are more than nine fast-food restaurants, some of which have specific characters (Greek, Italian or Turkish), and what they say is the largest eatery with delivery service on the outskirts in the former Talmühle . In addition, there is a coffee with a "middle-class" lunch menu and a restaurant and a Greek and an Italian restaurant.

Clinics and nursing homes

As private, mostly highly specialized companies, the six clinics in Hürth have both economic importance for the city and central importance for health care in the area around Cologne. Particularly noteworthy is the Sana Hospital, the first formerly communal clinic to be privatized.

Emergency doctor service

Sana also provides the medical staff for emergency medical calls. For this purpose, from 2016 the emergency doctor's vehicle will be stationed in a separate building with a lounge area for the paramedic directly at the hospital in order to shorten the distances involved. The modern emergency vehicle of the Hürth fire brigade has been produced as a model by the Herpa company since 2015 as an example with the city coat of arms and the corresponding lettering .

Nursing homes

Four houses offer inpatient care: The Rudi-Tonn-Haus is operated by the AWO , three other houses by Caritas . In most cases, assisted living is also offered. The evangelical old people's home in Efferen, which the Johanniter Siedlungsgesellschaft took over for a long time, does not offer any care.

Hospice association

The hospice association , founded in 2005, offers outpatient care and support for seriously ill and dying people who are cared for at home and their relatives.

Central facilities

Turkish Consulate General, Luxemburger Straße

Important central institutions in Hürth are the Turkish Consulate General , located in 1984, the Federal Language Office , located in 1969, and the German headquarters of the Lazarus Relief Organization of the International Order of Lazarus . An organization for the disabled is represented in Hürth with the office of the NRW regional association for life support , which works for the mentally handicapped. Branch offices of the district are located in Hürth near the town hall and community center, branches of the road traffic department and the health department for the citizens of the southern parts of the Rhein-Erft district.

Twin cities

• Spijkenisse ( Netherlands ) since 1966
• Thetford ( England ) since 1966 (ring partnership)
• Argelès-sur-Mer ( France ) since 1988;
• Kabarnet ( Kenya ) since 1988
• Skawina ( Poland ) since 1996 (ring partnership)
• Burhaniye ( Turkey ) since 2011

The partnership with Kabarnet arose after the North-South report of 1980 by the North-South Commission , which Willy Brandt had chaired, and the subsequent Cologne call of 1985 From Charity to Justice . At the same time, the Cologne partnership with Corinto (Nicaragua) came into being . The partnership association maintains very close contact with the partner cities. On September 8, 1991, the city received the European flag awarded by the Council of Europe for its commitment to internationalization.

Attractions

Fischenich, wayside cross from 1789

See also : List of architectural monuments in Hürth  and List of ground monuments in Hürth

The Eifel aqueduct , a Roman aqueduct to supply the city of Cologne with good Eifel spring water , ran through Hürth .

Before the construction of the Eifel aqueduct, some springs and streams were already used for this purpose in today's urban area . Remnants of these water pipes can still be found underground in the city. The marked Römerkanal hiking trail leads along the route of the Eifel pipeline through the urban area, past sections lifted out of the ground and erected (Alt-Hürth by the church / swimming pool and Hermülheim by the community center) and parts of the pipeline exposed in the ground, such as on the border from Hermülheim to Efferen behind the Realschule. Beyond the city limits (Berrenrather- / Militärringstrasse) is the exposed desludging plant.

Also worth seeing the castles are in the urban area: Castle Efferen , castle Kendenich and Castle Gleuel (with vintage car museum) and Burg sound barrier at Berrenrath; Remains of castles in Fischenich, Hermülheim and Alt-Hürth.

The stadium with its grandstand from the 1930s and the neighboring cycling track are well worth seeing . the vocational school and the former swimming pool in Alt-Hürth are worth seeing monuments from the 1930s.

More Attractions:

• the listed buildings of the Hürth city architect Albert Lüttgenau in Alt-Hürth with the vocational school, the former swimming pool and the arcade houses
• Löhrerhof in Alt-Hürth (restored half-timbered ensemble, now a cultural institution)
• the former Correns mill in Gleuel
• Remains of the former monastery Marienborn Hürth-Burbach
• Roman grave in Efferen (at the train station)
• Factory settlements in Alt-Hürth, Knapsack, Efferen and the Gleueler Bergmannsiedlung
• former Catholic Church of St. Ursula , tent roof church, Kalscheuren; (world-famous, six-fold apsidal building by Gottfried Böhm 1954/56 based on designs by Dominikus Böhm , monument and monument of the month March 2006 Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz (RVDL))
• the ensemble of the former and the current church of Alt-Hürth with rectory and former churchyard in connection with swimming pool and school from the time after the First World War and the most modern office building on Brabanter Platz

Half-timbered Pastoratstrasse, at the back: "bei Paula" in Alt-Hürth

• RWE: cooling tower (now partially car park) around 70 m high and 35 m in diameter, as well as sugar-hat-shaped air raid shelter and power plant control bunker " Winkel Tower " by Duisburg designer Leo Winkel (1885–1981)
• Railway monuments on Frechenerstrasse and Kreuzstrasse, in Alt-Hürth
• War memorials in all parts of the city, especially in Alt-Hürth (Trierer Str.) With bomb victims
• Feierabendhaus in Knapsack (culture and congress center similar to the Berlin congress hall) from 1956 (architect Karl Hell , Cologne), extensively renovated in 2004
• various holy houses or footfalls (see local article)
• Buildings of the former agricultural auction in Fischenich as well as numerous houses and farms from different building periods in all parts of the city.

At natural monuments and nature and landscape protection areas:

• Old cemetery in Knapsack with a memorial to the fallen and with the mass grave of Russian prisoners of war and forced laborers who died in Knapsack (formerly the Alleestrasse barracks camp) or who were killed by poor working conditions (with a memorial stone of the Soviet military mission)
• Local recreation area Hürtherberg with Adolf Dasbach Lake
• Otto-Maigler-See with swimming pool, surfing and rowing possibilities as a successful example of recultivation in the Rhineland Nature Park
• Nature reserves around the Hürther Waldsee , the Nordfeldweiher and between Knapsack and Luxemburger Straße
• Cologne green belt between Efferen and Cologne
• The multiple award-winning Gertrudenhof in Hermülheim is of national importance as an adventure and school farm

See also : Old church yards and gravestones in Hürth

Personalities

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  Rudi Tonn, poster by Willi Laschet

Honorary citizen

• Karl Ingenerf (1923–2005), principal school rector , honorary mayor (CDU), honorary citizen, founder of numerous Hürth initiatives (e.g. hospice, senior citizens' union, home and cultural association)
• Rudi Tonn (1923-2004), last honorary mayor (SPD), honorary citizen (2000)

sons and daughters of the town

• Ferdinand von Lüninck (1755–1825), Prince-Bishop of Corvey and Bishop of Münster
• Johann Peter Weygold (1811–1876), Mayor of Hürth and Efferen and in 1867 the first member of the Reichstag (North German Confederation) elected in the same election for the district of Cologne
• Fritz Graff (1858–1929), politician, member of the Prussian mansion, Lord Mayor of Bochum
• Paul Henckels (1885–1967), actor
• Josef Metternich (1915–2005), opera singer, music and singing teacher
• Käthe Kyrion (1928–2019), local poet
• Hans M. Schmidt (* 1936), art historian
• Jean Breuer (* 1938), cyclist (World Cup 1972)
• Wilhelm Hoffsümmer (* 1941), Catholic priest and author
• Hannelore Werner (* 1942), racing driver
• Klaus Lennartz (1944–2019), Member of the Bundestag 1980–2002 and District Administrator 1984–1995, born in Efferen
• Hans Peter Wollseifer (* 1955), entrepreneur, President of the Central Association of German Crafts
• Brigitte Mandt (* 1960), President of the State Audit Office of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Manfred Mohr (* 1961), chemist, poet, coach, trainer and author
• Carsten Held (* 1963), philosopher and university professor
• Michael Schumacher (* 1969), racing driver (brother of Ralf)
• Reinhard Kleist (* 1970), comic artist and graphic designer
• Ralf Schumacher (* 1975), racing driver (brother of Michael)
• Christoph Breuer (* 1983), cyclist, son of Jean Breuer
• Ralf Friedrichs (* 1964), author and moderator

Other personalities

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  Dr. Kürten monument

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  Willi Laschet in front of one of his objects in 2006

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  Walther Boecker

• Arnold Kürten (1842–1912), Medical Councilor, responsible for medical care in Hürth as a (poor) doctor for over four decades
• Bernhard Goldenberg (1872–1917), builder of the first power plant in Hürth
• Adolf Dasbach (1887–1961), mine director of the Hürtherberg mine , first recultivation of lignite mines
• Herbert Sinz (1913–1989), writer
• Wilhelm Disselbeck (1914–2001), doctor in Alt-Hürth and medical officer, Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
• Heinz Hübner (1914–2006), Rector of the University of Cologne, lived in Efferen, adjacent to the student village of Efferen
• Josef "Jupp" Pick (1916–2002), volunteer sports manager from Hürth
• Willi Laschet (1920–2010), painter and graphic artist, Culture Prize of the City of Hürth 1995
• Hubert Bruhs (1922–2005), sculptor, City of Hürth Culture Prize 1980
• Helmut Thoma (* 1939), media manager, has lived in Schallmauer Castle since 1998
• Tilman Röhrig (* 1945), writer, Culture Prize of the City of Hürth 1985
• Karl-Josef Assenmacher (* 1947), former Bundesliga soccer referee
• Willi Zylajew (* 1950), member of the Bundestag 2002–2013
• Carola Clasen (* 1950), writer, lives in Hürth
• Hans J. Rothkamp (* 1950), local history researcher, knight of the Radetzky and Thistle orders , has written several books about Hürth
• Walther Boecker (* 1952), former full-time mayor (SPD)
• Martin Sommerhoff (* 1956), cabaret artist, Kulturpreis der Stadt Hürth 1989, lives in Hürth
• Gabriele Frechen (* 1956), member of the Bundestag 2002–2009
• Anne Will (* 1966), TV presenter, went to school in Hürth
• Carsten Sebastian Henn (* 1973), writer, Culture Prize of the City of Hürth 2005
• Ralf Grabsch (* 1973), racing cyclist, multiple participant in the Tour de France, lives in Hürth
• Hagen Range (* 1974), actor and cabaret artist
• Claus "Seak" Winkler (* 1974), recognized graffiti artist, Culture Prize of the City of Hürth 2005
• Katja Kutsch (* 1976), writer, lives in Hürth
• André Greipel (* 1982), racing cyclist, winner of several stages of the Tour de France and German champion in 2013 and 2014, lives in Hürth
• Sarah Lombardi (* 1992), pop singer, grew up in Hürth
• Nils Politt (* 1994), racing cyclist, multiple participant in the Tour de France, runner-up in the Germany Tour 2018, lives in Hürth
• Mareike Kreuzner , German water polo player (SV Wuppertal-Neuenhof), member of the women's Bundesliga team, national player since 2005
• Edzard Hüneke , Marc “Sari” Sahr and Nils Olfert, former members of the band Wise Guys

societies

sports clubs

With eight clubs, football is the dominant team sport in Hürth. The top soccer club in its class is currently “ FC Hürth ”, which has been playing in the Middle Rhine League , one of three fifth-rate association leagues directly below the West German regional soccer league , since the 2008/09 season .

With the " Rugby Club 1960 Hürth " there is also one of the largest Rhenish rugby clubs in the city , which in the past played in the first rugby league and provided numerous players for the German national rugby team . The first team of the rugby club currently plays in the North Rhine-Westphalian regional league . The club house of "RC Hürth", which was expanded in 2005, also serves as the state performance base of the North Rhine-Westphalian rugby association .

Alt-Hürth, former swimming pool from 1930

Alt-Hürth, sports facilities / stadium

In April 1930, the Hürth swimming pool was inaugurated and handed over to its intended use. The interest of the population was reflected in the founding of the two swimming clubs "Free Water Sports Association Groß Hürth" and "BC Sparta". The aim of both clubs was the training of non-swimmers and advanced training for swimmers. Despite the lack of free time at the time - as a result of the few hours of practice - sports teams were soon established that held the first tournaments and swimming festivals. As early as 1931, the "Free Watersports Association Groß Hürth" and the Hürth local branch of the DLRG deployed the first lifeguards for the rescue service on the Rhine in the Rodenkirchen district of Cologne . The number of visitors allowed for the swimming pool was also exceeded for the first time.

The Hürth cycling track from 1938 was already the second facility. It was used until 1990. In Huerth there were four cycling clubs (now three) and the pacemaker race -Amateurweltmeister Jean Breuer .

In terms of sport, the “Hürther Rudergesellschaft”, the “Hürther Schwimmclub”, the “Berrenrather Billardclub”, “Budo-Sport YAMATO Hürth”, the “ Turnverein Alpenglüh'n 1894 ” (TVA, Fischenich), the 2013 two Teams in volleyball in the major league and whose first team will play in the 2nd division in 2017/2018 , the "HGV Hürth-Gleuel" in handball as well as the "Ringer Club Hürth", the " KSV Efferen " and the "Sportkeglerverein Hürth" both through the excellent performance of individual athletes and the level of the league. The "THC Hürth" offers tennis and hockey fans the best training conditions. There are also numerous other sports clubs of various types.

Other clubs

In almost every district there are several carnival societies or active carnival regulars and neighborhoods. The oldest are probably the Große Gleueler KG. from 1912 , the Große Knapsacker KG. from 1935, the KG Hürther Funken "blue-white" from 1938 e. V. and the Prinzengarde Rot-Weiß Hürth from 1947 e. V. There was a large wave of start-ups in the mid-1970s.

In the larger towns there are rifle brotherhoods . In 2012, the St. Hubertus Schützenbruderschaft Hürth-Hermülheim organized the Bundesschützenfest of the Federation of Historic German Schützenbruderschaften Cologne e. V with over 20,000 shooters.

One of the oldest marching bands is the Tambourcorps 1921 Hürth-Gleuel e. V. In Berrenrath maintains the Maigesellschaft for several hundred years of their customs Maispölls .

As an example of an association that represents one of the many immigration groups, TüKSEM e. V (Turkish Culture, Art and Education Center), which has been helping Turkish migrants to get closer to their culture since 1985. The association and its artists have already performed twice in the Cologne Philharmonic and on many different European stages.

There are also several fountain associations in Hürth: in Berrenrath, Alstädten-Burbach and Gleuel.

The Hürth Rockt e. Music initiative has existed in Hürth since 2002 . V. , which mainly supports young bands from Hürth. Every year it organizes the music festival "Rock am Teich" on the square in front of the Huerther Bürgerhaus. In 2011 she was awarded the Liberal Prize of the FDP Hürth and in 2012 the municipal culture prize.

literature

• Paul Clemen: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz, Der Landkreis Köln, Düsseldorf 1897, Reprint Düsseldorf 1983, ISBN 3-590-32118-0 (Berrenrath p. 15f; Efferen p. 113 ff .; Fischenich p. 121 ff .; Gleuel p. 131 ff .; Hermülheim p. 144 ff .; (Alt-) Hürth p. 148 ff .; Kendenich p. 152 ff .; Stotzheim p. 184 f.)
• Clemens Klug: Hürth - how it was, how it was , Steimel Verlag, Cologne undated (1962)
• Clemens Klug: Hürth - Art Treasures and Monuments , Hürth 1978
• Kölnische Rundschau (Hrsg.): 25 years of the large community of Hürth , Festgabe der Kölnische Rundschau, 65 p. Cologne undated (1955)
• Herbert Sinz: On the green field
• Herbert Sinz, Heinrich Schnitzler: Hürth in old pictures, A family album of the city of Gronenberg Verlag, Gummersbach 1980, ISBN 3-88265-052-4 , 168 pp.
• Heinrich Schnitzler: 50 years of the Hürth-Gleuel local community (1985)
• Helmut Neßeler: Hürth, as it used to be , Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg, 1999, ISBN 3-86134-585-4
• Hans J. Rothkamp: Hürther histories, a journey through time , Sutton Verlag, Erfurth 2007, ISBN 978-3-86680-208-7 (128 pages with 180 pictures from 12 districts from the imperial era to the 1970s)
• Hans Duell: 2000 years of Efferen in the course of time , Hürth o. J. (1990) 158 pp.
• Elmar Brohl : Hermülheim and the German Order , Hürth o. J. (1975) 220 pp.
• Heimat und Kulturverein e. V., Hürth (ed.): Hürther Heimat, magazine for history, culture and local history from No. 1 Hürth 1964
• Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz (Hrsg.): Stadt Hürth by Manfred Faust, 3rd completely revised edition, Cologne 1993, Rheinische Kunststätten, issue 36, ISBN 3-88094-726-0 . RK issue No. 36 (1st edition, issue 3–4, 1968, 2nd 1981)
• Manfred Faust: History of the City of Hürth , ed. from Heimat und Kulturverein Hürth, Cologne, JP Bachem Verlag, 2009 ISBN 978-3-7616-2282-7
• Raymund Gottschalk: Römer und Franken in Hürth , Verlag Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 2014 ISBN 978-3-7749-3928-8

Web links

Commons : Hürth  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Hürth  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Website of the city of Hürth
• Reduced image of the TK 5107 Brühl from 1893 before the start of industrialization in Hürth

Individual evidence

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4. ↑ A base can still be found on Trierer Straße
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6. ↑ ^{a b} Wolfgang Eger: The cradle of the brown coal industry in the Rhineland , in: Hürther Heimat, Bd. 63/64 (1989), p. 49
7. ↑ Marleen Meurer: Der Hürtherberg , In Clemens Klug: Hürth - how it was, how it became , Steimel Verlag, Cologne o. J. (1962), p. 198 f
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11. ↑ More details from Manfred Faust: 50 years ago: Forced marriage between Hürth and Efferen , in Hürther Heimat, No. 51/52 (1984), pp. 58–62
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28. ↑ Margret Klose: Great dreams in the “sleeping bus” , Kölner Rundschau, Rhein-Erft of October 24, 2011
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34. ↑ Coat of arms information from the website of the city of Hürth
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46. ↑ Map at the Rhineland Nature Park  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
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49. ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, Rhein-Erft, from 4./5. June 2015
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